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John P. Slough. John P. Slough was appointed by President Andrew Johnson to serve as chief justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court.In 1867, William Logan Rynerson, a member of the Territorial Legislative Council, took part in a campaign to denigrate the judge, and authored a resolution in the legislature to have the judge removed, leading Slough to slander Rynerson publicly.
The Judiciary Act of 1869 allowed judges to receive a pension upon retirement, and beginning in 1919, the retirement of judges from active duty was further facilitated by legislation creating senior status, in which a judge could retire from full-time service while continuing to receive full pay for engaging in a lighter amount of work. [5]
It includes American judges that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Assassinated American judges" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
In 2020, U.S. District Judge Esther Salas’ son was killed and her husband left in critical condition at their New Jersey home by a gunman who had once appeared in front of Salas in court. That ...
A California judge on trial for murdering his wife told cops he shot her during an argument about money while drinking and watching the hit crime series “Breaking Bad,” prosecutors said.
Georgia, 18 women have been executed in the United States. [1] Women represent about 1.12 percent of the 1,612 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [ 2 ]
United States District Court judge Larry R. Hicks was hit by a car and killed outside the federal courthouse in Reno, Nevada, on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. He was 80.
Killed two U.S. coastguardsmen and a Secret Service agent. [16] Herbert Hoover: Carl Panzram: Hanging Murder September 5, 1930 United States Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth, Kansas Killed a federal prison employee. Linked to 4 other murders; claimed to have killed 22 people. George Barrett: Hanging Murder of a federal officer March 24, 1936